Arkova is a compliance audit automation platform in early access, built on top of a production-grade, cryptographically-anchored evidence layer. The audit-automation product — scorecard, gap detection, remediation, regulatory-change alerts, PDF export — is being built and refined with pilot customers.

How much faster is an audit with Arkova going to be vs. the manual process?

Typical compliance audits take weeks: compiling evidence across many tools, mapping it to controls, and producing a report. Arkova is designed to map evidence to the rules in your operating regimes automatically, rank gaps by severity and penalty risk, and produce an audit-ready export. Our pilot target is collapsing weeks of audit prep into hours.

Which regulations are on the roadmap?

US federal (FERPA, HIPAA, SOX, FCRA, GLBA, ADA, FLSA, GINA), EU/UK GDPR, Kenya DPA, Australia APP, Canada PIPEDA, Singapore PDPA, Japan APPI, India DPDP, South Africa POPIA, Nigeria NDPR, Colombia Law 1581, Thailand PDPA, and Malaysia PDPA. Prioritized by pilot-customer footprint.

What will the scorecard show?

A per-jurisdiction posture score and breakdown, a severity-ranked gap list, a prioritized remediation plan, a regulatory-change feed, and an audit-ready export. Designed for GRC leads, CISOs, internal audit, and outside counsel.

Is the evidence chain auditor-grade?

The evidence layer is cryptographic and independently verifiable: every anchor is a SHA-256 fingerprint committed to a public network, and lifecycle events are in an append-only audit log. Our own SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 work is in progress.

Is my data safe? Do you see our documents?

No. Documents never leave your device. Fingerprinting is client-side. Only PII-stripped metadata flows to our systems. Even if we were breached, your documents remain private because we never had them.

Join the waitlist on arkova.ai. We reach out to scope pilots — the best fits right now are compliance teams operating across multiple jurisdictions who are tired of the quarterly audit fire drill.

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How Arkova fits alongside Vanta.

Vanta is the strongest tool in its category for SOC 2 evidence aggregation. Arkova adds an independent verification layer on top — cryptographically anchored receipts that survive vendor migrations and don't require trusting any single GRC system. Most pilot customers run them together, not instead of each other.

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Where Vanta is strongest

What Vanta does best

SOC 2 is your primary or only framework. Vanta has five years of dedicated SOC 2 onboarding. Their auditor relationships, control library, and integration depth are best-in-class for SOC 2 specifically.
You're an early-stage startup pursuing first SOC 2. Vanta's self-serve onboarding gets a small team to a Type 1 in weeks. The ecosystem of SOC 2-knowledgeable auditors trained on Vanta is enormous.
You need 200+ pre-built integrations on day one. Vanta's catalog of cloud, SaaS, and identity-provider integrations is unmatched. If your evidence is going to come automatically from existing systems, Vanta is more mature here.
You want a public trust center turnkey. Vanta's Trust Center product is polished and widely recognized.
Brand recognition matters in your sales cycle. Procurement teams know Vanta. "We use Vanta" closes vendor reviews fast.

Where Arkova adds value on top

What Arkova adds

You operate across multiple jurisdictions. 14+ frameworks: SOX, HIPAA, FERPA, FCRA, GLBA, ADA, GDPR, UK GDPR, Kenya DPA, Australia APP, PIPEDA, PDPA Singapore, APPI Japan, DPDP India, POPIA, NDPR, Law 1581 Colombia, PDPA Thailand, plus EU AI Act and DORA. Vanta's coverage skews US + EU.
You need evidence verifiable without vendor trust. Every Arkova-anchored record has a cryptographic receipt on a public ledger. An auditor or counterparty can verify the record's existence and integrity using the document, the public ledger, and a checksum tool. No trust in Arkova required.
Document privacy is a hard constraint. Documents are fingerprinted in your browser. The original file never leaves your device. Only PII-stripped metadata flows to our systems. Required for HIPAA, FERPA, and most high-trust contexts.
You're preparing for EU AI Act, DORA, NIST AI RMF, or SEC cyber. These regulations landed since 2023 and the legacy GRC platforms are still building dedicated coverage. Arkova was designed for the modern stack.
You want vendor-agnostic evidence that survives transitions. System migrations and vendor sunsets routinely break audit chains. Arkova-anchored records survive vendor change because the proof lives on a public ledger, not in a vendor database.
You want first-class AI agent and MCP integration. Arkova's MCP server lets your own AI agents query the verification surface directly.

Feature comparison

Coverage map.

Where each tool is strongest. Vanta excels at the items in its column. Arkova excels at the items in its column. The combination covers more than either alone. Last verified against Vanta's public documentation in April 2026; if you spot an inaccuracy tell us.

Feature	Arkova	Vanta
SOC 2 (Type 1 + Type 2) Vanta is the gold standard for SOC 2 onboarding
ISO 27001
HIPAA
GDPR
PCI DSS
SOX (financial reporting) Vanta supports general controls but Arkova builds for ICFR depth
FERPA (US education)
GLBA, FCRA, ADA, FLSA
EU AI Act
DORA (EU operational resilience)
NIST AI RMF
SEC cybersecurity disclosure rule
APAC frameworks (PDPA, APPI, DPDP, APP)
African frameworks (POPIA, NDPR, Kenya DPA)
LATAM frameworks (LGPD, Law 1581)
Cryptographically anchored evidence Arkova's core moat — auditors verify each claim independently
Append-only audit log on public ledger
Independent third-party verifiability (no vendor trust required)
Client-side document fingerprinting (docs never leave device)
AI-search-friendly (llms.txt, AI crawler access, SSR JSON-LD)
Continuous evidence collection from cloud + SaaS integrations Vanta has 200+ integrations; Arkova is building this layer
Automated control testing
Per-jurisdiction posture scoring
Severity-ranked gap detection
Audit-ready PDF export
Regulatory-change monitoring
Out-of-the-box auditor relationships Vanta has direct partnerships with most Big Four and mid-market audit firms
Trust center / public compliance posture page
Verification API
Webhook events
MCP server for AI agents
Open-source SDKs (TypeScript, Python)

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Architectural difference

How Arkova and Vanta complement each other.

Vanta and Arkova solve adjacent but distinct problems. Vanta automates the collection and presentation of compliance evidence from your existing systems, mapped to specific framework controls. Their core value is breadth of integrations and depth of SOC 2 maturity.

Arkova builds an evidence layer that does not depend on the system that produced the evidence. Every record has a cryptographic fingerprint anchored to a public ledger. A regulator, auditor, or counterparty verifies your claims by checking the document against the ledger — they do not have to trust Arkova, your file system, or any other vendor in the chain.

These approaches are complementary more than competitive. A mature compliance program eventually wants both: aggregation (Vanta's strength) and independent verifiability (Arkova's strength). The difference is which one solves your most painful problem first.

If your audit pain is "I have evidence in eight different SaaS tools and need it in one place" — Vanta is the right starting point. If your pain is "my auditors do not trust the evidence we produce because it is all stored by the same vendors that produced it, and our last vendor migration broke our audit history" — that is what Arkova was built to fix.

Common questions

FAQ

Can I use both Arkova and Vanta?

Yes. Many compliance programs benefit from layering. Vanta handles SOC 2 evidence aggregation from your SaaS stack. Arkova anchors the high-stakes records (executed contracts, board approvals, ICFR sign-offs, AI risk assessments, regulatory submissions) for independent verifiability. Talk to us about integration patterns.

Why does Arkova not have a SOC 2 report yet?

Arkova is in early access. Our SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 work are in progress and will ship before general availability. The architecture is privacy-first by design — documents never leave your device — so the surface our SOC 2 actually covers is intentionally small.

What's the migration path if we already use Vanta?

You don't have to migrate. Most pilot customers keep Vanta running and use Arkova for the records that need independent verifiability. Our Verification API plugs into Vanta's evidence-export workflow — anchored receipts get attached to the same auditor evidence package.

How does pricing compare?

Arkova pricing is set in early-access partnerships, not public list pricing. We are deliberately working with a small number of pilot customers to nail product-market fit before going self-serve. If you are evaluating budget, we will share concrete numbers in a discovery call.

Ready to layer Arkova into your Vanta stack?

Tell us about your jurisdiction footprint, your Vanta coverage, and where you're feeling evidence pain. We'll show you which Arkova capabilities slot in alongside what Vanta already handles.

Arkova is in private beta. Features described on this page are being built and refined with pilot customers right now. Some controls and integrations are live today; others are in active development. Talk to us about the parts most relevant to your workload.

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Or read The State of Compliance in 2026 for the broader picture of why an independent verification layer matters.